It's hard to forget first encounters with the safari world's Big Five, with individual lions and leopards etched into memories. I have entire movies in my mind that I can play back at will - showreels of elephants appearing from behind the tiniest shrubs, and rhinos with extraordinarily long horns. The other large animals are easy to recall, too: I ...

With costs that can easily reach into thousands of dollars a night, it's easy to associate the notion of 'going on safari' with seriously big bucks. The most luxurious camps include the likes of suites draped in chandeliers, private pavilions and private pools – all accompanied by world-class wines and almost guaranteed Big Five sightings.
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I've seen giraffe, cheetah and hippo counted amongst the infamous 'big five' in some safari parks' bids to entice tourists – and while we can't dispute the hippo is indeed a sizeable animal, it is not one of the big five. They might be responsible for nearly 3000 deaths a year, more than all the 'big five' put together in fact,
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There’s a road that runs dead straight across the Central Kalahari in Botswana. It isn’t just that someone was feeling lazy and drew a rulered line across a map while thinking ‘that’s about right, it’ll do’; I checked my Track My Safari log and there was...